Oakland Video Game Museum Opens First Exhibit“The
History of 3D”

San Francisco - November 28, 2011 - The Museum of Art and
Digital Entertainment (The MADE) will open its first exhibit to the
public on December 3, 10 AM to 5 PM at its location in downtown
Oakland. This exhibit focuses on the History of 3D in games, and
will feature playable demonstrations of games displayed.

The MADE is a 501c(3) non-profit museum dedicated to the
preservation of videogames, and the presentation of games as art.
The History of 3D is the first exhibit hosted by the Museum since
it secured a location in October. The MADE raised $20,000 on
crowd-funding site Kickstarter.com, and has used those funds to pay
for its new facilities.

"3D is such a broad topic in video games. Our exhibit creators,
Jason Cutler and Nealon Leadbetter evaluated hundreds of games and
types of 3D, from voxels to vectors, from pre-rendered sprites to
normal mapped polygons," said Alex Handy, director of The MADE.
"They’ve chosen a wonderfully varied set of examples from the
rich history of video gaming on consoles and computers. We hope
this exhibition inspires the next generation of game developers,
both young and old."

Henry Lowood, Curator for History of Science & Technology
Collections at Stanford University Libraries and founding member of
The MADE's board of directors, said that "Digital games without a
doubt have become one of the central creative media available for
entertainment, art and other forms of expression. So much so that
contemporary cultural history is difficult to talk about without
including digital games. As a result, not only will the history of
this medium be lost if we do not preserve the history of digital
games, but there is more at stake: we will be unable to provide a
complete cultural history of our times.”

The History of 3D will be on display throughout December on
weekends, and during other hours which will be scheduled and shown
on the MADE’s Website
www.themade.org. The December 3 opening will take
place from

10 AM to 5 PM at The MADE’s location in Oakland. Admission
will be donation based, and the suggested donation will be $10. No
one will be turned away for lack of funds.

The MADE also hosts Tuesday night fighting game tournaments at 7
PM, a free kids programming class every Saturday morning at 10 AM,
and will be hosting a Reddit Meetup on December 10 from 6 PM to 11
PM.

The games currently scheduled to be playable in the History of
3D exhibit are:

Darkness1993 Mac - Doom1995 Mac - Descent1996 Mac - Quake More
games will be added as the week progresses.

About The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment (MADE) Founded
in 2010, The MADE is an all volunteer organization created by Alex
Handy, a video game journalist and technological archaeologist
based in Oakland, California. In 2008 Mr. Handy unearthed an
25-year-old parcel of long lost Atari 2600 and Colecovision games
at a flea market in that city, spurring his creation of the Museum.
The MADE is an IRS recognized 501c(3) not-for-profit organization.
It’s EIN number is 26-4570976 .

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